Here and There editorial by ALex H Wagheit in Fifth district race
Editorial criticizes the Yell County certification in the Fifth congressional primary noting Hays led with votes and poll tax receipts misaligned. It urges appreciation for an honest fighter amid political strife and hints at broader national concerns. Also mentions future population change and NRA troubles with a skeptical tone. Reports local filling stations and highway 67 delays. Ends with note on education department leadership transition and possible commissioner appointment.
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Brooks Hays
Hays
Yell County
Yell
David Terry
Fixing of Retail Prices Is Doomed
Washington reports reveal the Farm Adjustment Administration plans to reject minimum markups for the $9.0 billion food and grocery industry. A public hearing was ordered for October 1 to consider a master code with 24 percent wholesale and 7.4 percent retailer markups. Officials oppose price fixing as a path to parity prices for farmers and warn it could squeeze small merchants.
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Associated Press
Washington
Farm Adjustment Administration
George N. Feek
Farm Administration
Fred C. Howe
Peek
Standard Oil Posts Oil Price Increases Across Regions
Standard Oil of Louisiana raised crude oil prices Friday for Sarepta Carterville and El Dorado under 25 gravity by 13 cents, 40 and above at $1.07. Miller County under 25 gained 62 cents, 40 and above 94 cents. Smackover listed 70 cents and Nevada 6 cents.
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Baton Rouge
Standard Oil Company of
Louisiana
Sarepla
Carterville
el Dorado
Miller County
Hope Beaten 20-6 by Camden in Friday clash at Camden
Camden High School Panthers outweighed Hope Bobcats 189 to 155 per man and won 20-6 on Friday night. Cathey scored twice for Camden in the second quarter, ORear added a third in the third, and Hope mounted a late rally with a Turner reception for Hope’s only score. Brown booted punting and key defense kept Camden from breaking open in the opening quarter.
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Camden High School Panthers
Hope
Bobcat
Camden
Bobcats
Cathey
Brown
Turner
Panthers
Cargile
Urban
Harper
Debtor Gains Under Any Inflation Plan
A two partNEA Service explainer outlines inflation’s potential effects on individuals. It contrasts outcomes for salaried workers, wage earners, the unemployed, merchants, and farmers if money supply and credit doubled, noting price rises and varied prospects for raises, employment, and profits.
Hempstead Circuit Court Opens With Fewer Crimes On Docket
The fall term of Hempstead circuit court convenes Monday at Washington with a lighter criminal docket. Several cases carried over from spring will be tried, including four murder charges set for October: Bessie Watts for a Hope death on May 19, Lindsay White for the Slaying near Washington on July 14, Sarah Lloyd and her son Jackson Lloyd for a Hope preacher murder, and Henry Muldrow for a nearby Williamson slaying on September 4. Also to be re tried is June Brashear in the First National Bank of Hope robbery case, with Jeff Whitt charged in theft of a Dan God car. Continued on page th
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Hempstead
Washington
Bessie Watts
Hope
Lindsay White
Isaac Scroggins
Scroggins
Sarah Lloyd
Jackson Lloyd
Hempstead County
Jeff Whitt
Dan God
Hope Schools to Open on Monday
Hope public schools prepare for a delayed start to the year with classes beginning Monday October 2. Elementary pupils collect book lists while registration for senior and junior high students starts Monday at city hall. Superintendent Miss Beryl Henry urges full registration. Elementary entrants can enroll if their sixth birthday is on or before November 6.
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Hope
Beryl Henry
Arkansas highway bids awarded for two projects
The state highway commission awarded contracts for two road projects in Johnson and Grim counties on Friday. A single bid in Polk County for maintenance of 5.5 miles of bituminous surface on the Mena north road was rejected as excessive, with a bid of 1405 dollars deemed too high.
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Little Rock
State Highway Commission
Johnson and Grimt
Mena North Road
Polk County
Hope Retail Sales Rise 25 to 50 Percent Says Kiwanis
Kiwanis members report Hope and area retail firms show 25 to 50 percent gains over last year with some 100 percent increases. NRA and national administration moves are cited as main drivers, as industrial workers regain purchasing power and farmers begin buying. Spraggins and Hearne note improvement for the region and upcoming program plans.
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Hope
NRA
Kiwanis Club
New Capital Hotel
John P. Cox
Cox
A. B. Spraggins
Southern Ice & Utilities Co
Frank Hearne
Hope Independent Ice Co
Cotton Carryover Reduced as U S Demand Rises
Washington reports that rising domestic cotton use trimmed carryover by over 1.9 million bales to 11.597 million on August 1, 1933, from 13.558 million a year earlier. World mill consumption reached 24.302 million running bales in 1932-33, up from 22.319 million the prior year, with most gains in U S consumption. Continued on Page Three.
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Washington
Bureau of Agricultural Econonmies
Bureau
Second Hostage Freed by Convicts Near Indy Kidnapping
In Indianapolis and Gary areas two men freed after a prison breakout are identified. Victor Wiley was released in Nashville Indiana after being abducted Friday by a man believed to be one of ten escaped inmates. Sheriff Charles Neel of Corydon, seized during the escape, was freed Friday after wandering in woods prior to rejoining authorities.
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Victor Wiley
Charles Neel
Indianapolis
Ind
Nashville
Indiana State Prison
Wiley
Gary
Corydon
Indiana
Michigan City
Valaparaiso
Matt Leach
Indiana State Police
Neel
Leach
Neal
Harrison County
Life sentences in Edwardsville kidnaping trials
Edwardsville Illinois faces a spate of life and long terms after a jury convicted five men and a woman in the kidnapping of Alton banker August Luer and a meat packer. Eugene Norvell and Lillian Chessen received life terms. others drew 20 and 5 year sentences as the state sought the death penalty. The Urschel case in Oklahoma City also moved toward verdicts with jurors later deliberations and new legal instructions under the Lindbergh Law.
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Edwardsville
Ill
August Luer
Alton
Eugene Norvell
Jercy Fitzgerald
Lillian Chessen
Mike Musiala
Christ Gitcho
Charles Chessen
Urschel
Oklahoma
Cue
Sam Krosberg
Edgar Vaught
Vaught
J. Herbert K. Hyde
Hiurvey Bailey
Albert Bates
Shannons
R. G
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George
Kelly
Ursehel
Toot
Alex. H. Wagheit
United States
France
N. Steele
State Board of Education
Priday
C. M. Hirst
Ouachita Men
Robert Talley
NEA Service
Germany
Roosevelt
Circuit Court
City Hall
Mena Road
State Penitentiary
Finley €. Carson
Russell Clark
Harry Pierpont
NEA
Roger Wolfe Kahn
New York
Porecast
Guglielue Marconi
Chicago Exposition
Marconi
Pell
Bremen
Dorothy Fell
Ogden Mills
Woolworth Donahue
Rosa Pouselle
Oklahoma City
Charles F. Urschel
Edgar S. Vaught
Federal Building
Hope Cotton Exchange
New Orleans
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